What’s True Love Like In Isolation?
The most poignant events of our lives still leave an impact that only lasts a couple of years at most. What do we make of ‘true love’ which has a kind of endlessness?
Books
Book reviews & analyses
BOOK: Home – Manju Kapur | Coming Back To Me
A lovely return to my late 20s where books absorbed me with a rigour I did not experience in my social or professional life. It was like coming home.
Body & Sex | Books | Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture | Relationships
BOOK | Fearlessly Flying With Erica Jong
Giving sex an easy place in my mind, required moving around the furniture inside my head – old traumas, inherited shame, cultural taboos. This book taught me flying.
Books | City | Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture
Autorickshaws & Poetry: Dignity In A Post COVID World
I found rage and poetry in autorickshaws. I’m threading them together for gentleness in a post COVID world.
Reluctantly Seeking Shah Rukh Fans
I did not expect to find feminist meaning in a book about Shah Rukh Khan.
The Unloving Wanting
There are treasures in hidden corners as much as there are monsters called trauma. This un-loving wanting is our map.
What Does Loneliness Mean To You?
He writes of the isolation of chasing material dreams. I saw exquisite poetry laced with slivers of pain.
Body & Sex | Books | Map Of Emotion | Poetry
Journal Entries, 2016
A love poem in pieces of my heart and pages from my journal.
A Skin Of Dignity: Kiran Nagarkar’s Legacy
Kiran Nagarkar’s legacy is making me ponder questions of dignity.
Learning To Read Poetry
Most bookshops don’t have an entire aisle on poetry. Poetry has never really found a home in my book shelf or life.